Walton County News

One race featured mudslinging, the other was tame. But the races for the county's two state Senate posts did have one thing in common - the incumbents managed to fend off challengers for their post during ...

While Loganville residents in Walton County woke up Wednesday knowing they still had Kevin Little as chairman of the Board of Commissioners, Joe Chapman as sheriff and Chuck Bagley heading to the BOC as their ...

Walton County District Attorney Ken Wynne announced in court this week the state's intention to seek the death penalty in the case of Josh Spearman, who allegedly killed his parents in early February.

In late 2008, an unusually virulent strain of influenza is detected in Southeast Asia.

After months of deliberations, public outcry and aborted efforts at millage increases and personnel cuts, the Walton County Board of Education passed the 2008-2009 budget.

The Alcovy Judicial Circuit, which is comprised of Walton and Newton counties, is considering use of ankle monitors on certain non-violent offenders to free up much needed space in local jails and may prove to ...

Early voting ends today and anyone who didn't vote at the Walton County Board of Elections office at Hammond Drive will have to go to their precinct on Tuesday to cast their vote in the primaries.

The open race for Post 3 on the Oconee County Board of Education pits Walton County school administrator Kim Argo against Ashley Hood, a community volunteer and full-time mom.

State and federal investigators said Tuesday that they spent the past two days gathering evidence in the last documented mass lynching in the United States: a grisly slaying of four people that has remained ...

Federal and state agents swarmed the backyard of a modest white house along a windy stretch in rural northeast Georgia last week in search of clues that could be linked to living suspects involved in the 1946 ...

Walton County Parks and Recreation is on track to receive $100,000 for the purchase of 38 acres of land for a new park in Walnut Grove.

Jerry Dean Harrison first climbed aboard a motorbike to compete when he was a 4-year-old. Now, just two years later, one of his dreams has come true.

A two-day search of some property on Michael Road near Monroe in Walton County has netted a couple of finds.

Investigators have spent two days digging at a property in northeast Georgia in search of clues advocates hope could lead to finding living suspects in the unsolved lynchings of four people in 1946.

The federal government's recently accelerated efforts at solving old but as yet unsolved civil rights cases is beginning to show results.

Penny Young gets a hug from Terry Briscoe as Cindy Woodruff stands at right. Kelly Lambert / Staff Penny Young cries near the site of Tuesday's search.

Every Christmas Eve, the Harris children put on a talent show. Paige would sing, Ty would play the trumpet, Suzanne would twirl her baton and Steve would tell a few jokes.

Despite difficulties with a new math curriculum, system officials in both Walton County Public Schools and Social Circle City Schools are pleased with the results of this year's Criterion Referenced Competency ...

More than 100 pet lovers filled the Monroe-Walton Library Tuesday for the Walton Animal Guild's first State of the Animal Economic and Demographic Report.

The Department of Corrections hopes to save more than $10 million by closing probation detention and diversion centers as well as the last of Georgia's boot camps for young non-violent offenders.